Castellum.AI Raises $8.5M Series A to Tackle Financial Crime Compliance with AI Agents
Briefly

Financial crime costs over $2 trillion globally each year. Compliance teams face challenges due to outdated systems, leading to excessive false positive alerts. Castellum.AI provides a platform with advanced AI agents and comprehensive AML/KYC screening. Their technology markedly cuts false positives by 94% and review times by 83%. By monitoring 200,000 sources updated every five minutes, their solution allows compliance teams to better target real threats. Castellum.AI's modular system ensures smooth integration into existing workflows, appealing to various financial institutions and fintech companies.
Financial crime costs the global economy over $2 trillion annually, while compliance teams at banks struggle with antiquated systems generating thousands of false positive alerts daily.
Castellum.AI builds the only platform with fully in-house AI agents, risk data, and AML/KYC screening capabilities, reducing false positives by 94% and compliance review time by 83%.
Their proprietary data collection process monitors over 200,000 global sources updated every 5 minutes, enabling compliance teams to focus on preventing actual financial crime.
The platform's modular implementation approach allows institutions to integrate AI capabilities without disrupting existing workflows, making it a preferred solution for major financial institutions and fintechs.
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